The joys of the world are slavery, because they are caused by the obtaining of the desired thing; craving, greed, jealousy, rancor, possession are all manifestations of such slavery; it is the fear of loss that paralyzes the fleeting joy of this possession.
The pleasure of the exaltation of the senses is not joy, nor is the sentimental emotion that the personality calls love, always ephemeral and transitory.
The Joy of the world is extinguished because of the suffering of loss and pain. True Joy, impersonal, ignores suffering and pain which it uses instead as its fuel.
Joy is a movement of the Living Fire, which moves the soul with a vibration and an atmosphere of its own nature. This state can be produced only if the cause, physical or psychic, increases its vitality with an expansion of Consxiousness.
Peace is conquered, Joy is generated only by the acceptance of the Real. All sadness is relative, a work of denial and confession of slavery; it is impotent and sterile; the absence of Joy is a slow suicide.
Wise is he who seeks Joy in every exultation that generates liberation from slavery.
